Covenants

Covenants. Promise that are to be kept.

Today, I read through the rest of Noah's story in the Bible in Genesis chapter 9. Here God promises He will never flood the earth again. To remind us of His promise, He says He will put a rainbow in the sky when it rains. Whenever we see it, we can remember His promise.

Then Noah's family spreads across the earth and repopulates it. Each son passing on what he has learned from his mother and father. Noah passing on his faith and wisdom and stories to his grandchildren. They in turn passed it on to theirs, or not sometimes.

Today, when we marry, we make a covenant to each other. To remain faithful, through health issues, money issues, life issues, raising children. When we die, we leave a legacy to our children and grandchildren and friends and acquaintances. Whatever they saw and heard us do or not do, this they remember and imitate or spend a life time trying to correct or change!

God made a covenant with all of us back in Noah's day, to never flood the earth and He left us rainbows to remind us of that legacy. Deut. 7:9 says "Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,"

What an example for us to follow!